Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.